hudson
has definitions from the fields of geography,nautical,biology
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[ noun ] (geography) a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century
Synonyms Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)One week before the convention , Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson , gazing at the opposite shore . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)No suburban shopping-center branch - not even Hudson 's vast Northland outside Detroit - does anything like the unit volume of business or carries anything like the variety of merchandise to be found in the home store . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Across the bay the Palisades were heavy in green timber ; their rock paths led down to the Hudson . Along Wappinger_Creek in Dutchess_County , past the white church at Fishkill , past Verplanck_'s_Point on the east bank of the Hudson , to the white salt crusted roads of the Long_Island_Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing_for something explosive to happen . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 162
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[ noun ] (biology) English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
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[ noun ] (nautical,geography) English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
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